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I’m asked regularly about making goats’ milk lotions, and all I can say is that I don’t know. This is what I know about goats – they’re cute, they’re cuddly, they seem to enjoy eating tin cans, and this video about the baby goat stampede makes me smile. I hate anything to do with goat...
Anonymous wrote in the pineapple extract post: Your blog is great and you are super smart so I figured you would know the answer to this question: I really want to start incorporating extracts into my lotions. I was wondering if I could make my own botanical extract system by mixing together, for example, pineapple...
I haven’t had time to answer your comments and e-mails lately, so I’m going to take the next few days to get to quite a few of them. If you have a question that you’ve been dying to pose, e-mail me or post them in this comment and I’ll see what I can do. I’m...
It’s just about summer time (well, in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) and a young woman’s thoughts turn to what fragrances she should choose for her seasonal products! I’m a foodie, and I generally use things like Cream Cheese Frosting and Oatmeal, Milk & Honey (reminds me of marzipan), but in the summer months I switch...
I’m still not feeling all that well – I’m getting really tired of this stomach bug as this has to be the 10th time I’ve had this since March – so I thought I’d post a question and let you be the blog writers for today. Why do you like the products you like? Think...